Re: Applesoft Firmware Card

[Ivan X <ivan@ivanx.com>]

On Sunday, June 2, 2013 7:58:18 PM UTC-4, waynej...@gmail.com wrote:
> I picked up a couple of ROM cards with integer basic on them but I have no idea if they originally came that way. A lot of people that bought ROM cards swapped the ROMs so that they could have AppleSoft on the motherboard. 
> 
> To complicate things further a lot of software crackers liked to use the original monitor ROM instead of the autostart.
> 
> The ROM cards could be configured so they would use the ROM cards F8 or the Motherboards F8

Agree with this. I remember we had an Apple II and bought the Applesoft card, and the store we bought it from swapped the chips between the board and the card. I also have a card with the Integer ROMs but the Autostart ROM in F8 (the opposite of what you're describing, Steven). I think there was so much customization performed in those early days, if not by the end user, then by local computer stores, that it may be hard to really look at any one of those cards and know if it's got the ROMs it shipped with.